Victoria Hamilton

The Circuit (2016)

As: Helene

Newly arrived in town Nat and Gabe accept a dinner invitation from the volatile Hungarian Helene and her boorish husband Sasha. Whilst the other guests, ex-Bananarama member Marty, Angie, who 'makes bullets' and the supposedly suicidal Danny are affable enough, Nat and Gabe are shocked by their hosts' very public rows and Gabe's attempt at peace-making is awkwardly received. Nat is taken aback when virtual stranger Helene ...

Runtime: 40 min.

Directed by: Ben Taylor

Stars: Adeel Akhtar | Eva Birthistle | Tobias Menzies | Victoria Hamilton | Desiree Akhavan

Toast (2011)

As: Mum

An adaptation of celebrity chef Nigel Slater's bestselling memoir, 'Toast' is the ultimate nostalgic trip through everything edible in 1960's Britain. Nigel's mother was always a poor cook, but her chronic asthma and addiction to all things canned does not help.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: S.J. Clarkson

Stars: Freddie Highmore | Ken Stott | Victoria Hamilton | Oscar Kennedy | Helena Bonham Carter

French Film (2008)

As: Cheryl

Jed prepares to interview French cineaste and self-appointed expert on the nature of love - Thierry Grimandi. The worldly and somewhat jaded Jed is dead-set on dismissing the auteur's musings as pompous and, well French, until his own relationship with Cheryl starts to fall apart and he is forced to re-evaluate the illusive subject. Soon everyone is talking about love: his relationship counsellor, drinking buddy ...

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Jackie Oudney

Stars: Eric Cantona | Hugh Bonneville | Adrian Annis | Anne-Marie Duff | Victoria Hamilton

The Shell Seekers (2006)

As: Nancy Chamberlaine

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.

Runtime: 129 min.

Directed by: Piers Haggard

Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Maximilian Schell | Prunella Scales | Victoria Smurfit | Victoria Hamilton

Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)

As: Aunt Cora

Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.

Runtime: 84 min.

Directed by: Brendan Maher

Stars: Rafe Spall | Rebecca Hall | Nina Sosanya | Victoria Hamilton | Lorraine Burroughs

Scoop (2006)

An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Woody Allen

Stars: Scarlett Johansson | Hugh Jackman | Woody Allen | Ian McShane | Kevin McNally

A Very Social Secretary (2005)

Bernard Hill and Victoria Hamilton star in Alistair Beaton's wickedly funny feature-length drama inspired by David Blunkett's private affair held up for very public scrutiny.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Jon Jones

Stars: Bernard Hill | Victoria Hamilton | Robert Lindsay | Doon Mackichan | Archie Panjabi

Before you Go (2002)

As: Catherine

The funny, heart-warming and moving new film, from director Lewis Gilbert. When Violet Heaney's three daughters return home for her funeral, each sister finds her own way of coping with her loss. For Teresa, the eldest, it's herbal tea, obsessive cleaning and hectoring her long-suffering husband, Frank. Catherine, the youngest, resorts to retail therapy, industrial quantities of marijuana and manic phone calls ...

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Lewis Gilbert

Stars: Julie Walters | John Hannah | Joanne Whalley | Victoria Hamilton | Patricia Hodge

A Day In The Death Of Joe Egg (2002)

As: Sheila

Sheila and Bri share their struggles as they raise a severely handicapped daughter in this recorded performance of the play by Peter Nicholls. Broadcast on BBC4 in 2002.

Runtime: 150 min.

Directed by: Robin Lough

Stars: Eddie Izzard | Victoria Hamilton | Prunella Scales | John Warnaby | Robin Weaver

Goodbye, Mr. Chips (2002)

As: Kathie

In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking holiday, he meets and marries the vivacious Kathie,who becomes his helpmate at the school but sadly pre-deceases him. Just before World War One insensitive new headmaster Ralston ...

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Stuart Orme

Stars: Martin Clunes | Victoria Hamilton | Conleth Hill | John Wood | Patrick Malahide

Victoria & Albert (2001)

As: Victoria

The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-year-old Victoria's ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period in 19th Century England where Victoria comes to terms with the enormous duties that lay ahead of her, while also falling deeply in love with her beloved Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The marriage ...

Runtime: 200 min.

Directed by: John Erman

Stars: Jonathan Firth | Victoria Hamilton | James Callis | Diana Rigg | Peter Ustinov

Mansfield Park (1999)

As: Maria Bertram Rushworth

This fun and sexy comedy tells a timelessly entertaining story where wealthy, secret passions and mischievous women put love to the test.. When a spirited young woman, Fanny Price, is sent away to live on the great country estate of her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society. But while Fanny learns "their" ways, she also enlightens them with a wit and sparkle all her own!

Runtime: 112 min.

Directed by: Patricia Rozema

Stars: Frances O'Connor | Lindsay Duncan | James Purefoy | Sheila Gish | Harold Pinter

Persuasion (1995)

As: Henrietta Musgrove

This film adaptation of Jane Austen's last novel follows Anne Elliot, the daughter of a financially troubled aristocratic family, who is persuaded to break her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a young sea captain of meager means. Years later, money troubles force Anne's father to rent out the family estate to Admiral Croft, and Anne is again thrown into company with Frederick -- who is now rich, successful and perhaps still ...

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Roger Michell

Stars: Amanda Root | Ciarán Hinds | Susan Fleetwood | Fiona Shaw | John Woodvine